This is a great thread and I love to stop by and see what yall are doing. I havent fished for crappie in several months and it is starting to get to me. Im going to have to get out there in the next couple of weeks.

I guess it is about time I get back out there and try to figure them out again. Shooting docks got my oldest son back interested in fishing again last spring. We did pretty good March-mid June but after that I couldn’t catch them.

I did learn that to stay focused I have to take my regular rods out of the boat and only take fairy wands and egg beater reels or I will revert back to my roots fairly quickly!

I haven't kept up on this post like I should have but went back and caught up. Will start posting more often because I love to crappie fish and look at other folks fishing success. These have all been in the last week. Most in the Cedar Ridge area and North to the 36 bridge.

These are all different days-nights catch. The last picture was 2-3 day and evening.

Thanks Razorback. I found a huge school in 23'. But couldn't get that school to bite. They were moving around a little. Might have been something else. Also found some really large fish suspended @ 20' over 40' at another location. They might have been stripers. But didn't try for them. The troller was really struggling to hold the boat steady near there. Wind was funneling and boat was swaying 70 yards from there.

Nice work TG. Did you get an Ultrex? I have really been eyeballing them, price is all that is holding me back...and knowing I will need to upgrade graphs too if I do that. It’s crazy that a trolling motor and a pair of medium sized graphs is $6,000!

Nice work TG. Did you get an Ultrex? I have really been eyeballing them, price is all that is holding me back...and knowing I will need to upgrade graphs too if I do that. Itís crazy that a trolling motor and a pair of medium sized graphs is $6,000!

I'm running 55lbs thrust. And got a Terrova. I'm trying to keep the weight down in the river jon so I can continue to carry a larger load. It's a multi-use boat. I've got another troller for duckhunting. I had gotten a Uterra once. But decided it was going to add to much weight with both the motor and one more battery. So I took it back. I do wish Minn Kota would make a 55lbs thrust Ulterra for us old men with bad backs.

I'm running 55lbs thrust. And got a Terrova. I'm trying to keep the weight down in the river jon so I can continue to carry a larger load. It's a multi-use boat. I've got another troller for duckhunting. I had gotten a Uterra once. But decided it was going to add to much weight with both the motor and one more battery. So I took it back. I do wish Minn Kota would make a 55lbs thrust Ulterra for us old men with bad backs.

The fish are biting, and there's hogs to be kilt. Gotta go!

Thanks,
I entered in the big crappie of day pot at the bait shop. Maybe my 1:14.4 will hold. Most winners have been over 2# though.

Itís crazy what you can spend on trollers and graphs!

I make due with a 55# powerdrive auto pilot and a single graph. I fish off the side and run the troller from the center console when Iím solo.

Thanks Hix. We fished last night at my barge. 3 of us only caught 31. It was slow. Then this morning couldn't buy a bite.

I too have a new Trolling Motor and graph. I got a 72", 36 volt Terrova. A new Garmin 93SV on dash, it has everything to be had and is nice! Only had it out couple times. Still learning it. Have a Humminbird 698SI on front. Screen is very small for side imaging. I think it will work on front ok. This is on a 22' Bay Stealth. Spot lock is working great and can't wait to learn how to use the graph more.

Go over stuff you know what it is to get an understanding of what your looking at! Be it rock piles. Laydowns. Brush piles. You will eventually figure out what it is your looking at and go from there!! I was real comfortable with the graphs on the old boat. Not sure how long it will take me to get back in the swing of things once the new one shows up

Deadfalls and rocks/bolders, structure, and reading such, fish and bait ball ID, are no problem on the side scan. It's just get-n used to the "menu venue", what views come after what, remembering to take screen shots, ect. Already turned off the views I don't want, set depths, sensitivity, ect. Just some minor learning.

Yesterday on pines was tough. Cold and windy. Fished anyway and only got 5.
Went back this morning and got a limit by noon.
Was tough fishing in the cold rain but the bite was better. The bigger fish seems to have moved out though and I didnít go looking for them.

Yesterday on pines was tough. Cold and windy. Fished anyway and only got 5.
Went back this morning and got a limit by noon.
Was tough fishing in the cold rain but the bite was better. The bigger fish seems to have moved out though and I didnít go looking for them.

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What depth are you catching on Pines? I have been thinking of hitting it up but every time I do the weather turns to crap.

I'm ready to get this Lewisville tourney over this weekend and get ready for Millwood and the rest of the season!! Rayburn TBH get together should be awesome too but I've been wrong before so who knows!